The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-10
Stray Shots.

THE Grand Army post at Springfield
voted not to adopt the dependent pen
sion bill.
AN inmate Of the Soldiers Home al
Bennington has received a pension.
with large amount of arrears, but still
prefers to remain at the home.
THE Grand Army post at Waterbury
has sent the Soldiers Home at Benning
ton So and the post at Burlington
has voted to furnish room in the Sol
diers' Home.
Mrs. G. d. GIBSON of Bennington
past president of the Woman's Relief
Corps, has given the Vermont Soldiers
Home fine bookcase that will hold
four hundred volumes.
DIR. DRAPER of the Brattleboro in
sane asylum is of the opinion that
Henry n. Jillson of Williamstown. who
has been under his care for several
months, ought to be transferred to the
Soldiers Home at Bennington.
THE state of Vermont is going to
erect live monuments at Gettysburg to
indicate and commemorate different
episodes in which Vermont soldiers
took part and mark the spots which the
several regiments occupied during the
three days. fight.
THE site for the new Soldiers Home
in the state of Minnesota has been Sc
lected and located at Minnehaha, which
is about two miles from Minneapolis
and short distance from Fort Smell
ing. The location is not only hand
some, but healthy one.
THE fourth annual reunion of Com
pany l, Eleventh Vermont, will be
held at Hardwick September I, 1887.
Lieutenant 5. III. Foster of Calais de-
livers the address. Lieutenant John
S. Drenan of Hardwick is secretary and
invites all the surviving members of the
= straw hat company to be present,
as a good time is in store for them.
MARY CASEY was granted apension
last week as the widow of John Casey,
who served in the revolutionary war.
The soldier died in 1S45, at the age of
seventy-live. He was married only a
few years prior to his death to his pres
ent widow, who was then only sixteen
years of age. She lives in Ohio and is
believed the last to be granted pen
sion on account of service in the revo-
lutionary war.
THE so-called dependent pension
bill that is submitted to the Grand
Army posts for their endorsement does
not please all of the Vermont veterans.
They say it is much like the bill which
was vetoed by the President-one
that the United States senate only IA
vored because it thought it better than
nothing and the only measure of the
kind that would be sent from the house
for their action. Almost every senator
who spoke when the bill was being
considered by that body criticised it.
The Vermonters propose getting up a
new bill entirely to be presented to
congress at the beginning of the next
session. 1t will be bill that the Presi-
dent cannot afford to veto.
THE surviving soldiers residing in
Washington county held their first re-
union at Montpelier last week and or
gained by electing General Stephen
Thomas of Montpelier commander; j.
w. Sleeper of Waterbury, senior vice.
II. Osgood of Cabot,
junior vice-commander; Charles Tewks-
bury of Worcester, adjutant, and II.
Nj. Smith of Montpelier, quartermaster.
Addresses were made by General
Thomas, Governor Ormsbee, Lieuten-
ant-governor Fuller, f. F. Palmer of
Waterbury, Captain H. c.. Lull of
Montpelier and others. Congressman
Circuit, who was advertised to speak,
did not arrive until the meeting had